v1.6.0 - Pathfinder

[Doezer]

Since 1.5.0, I'm trying to release every month with whatever is merged at that point. Say hello to the October release, named "Pathfinder" from the classification, scoring, importing/scanning updates...
A lot of changes in this version, mostly under the hood, such as :

• a new machine learning model trained manually on 1000 release names, effectively enabling embedded "AI" (in its larger definition) at no cost. Decision based API (e.g. Jev) stays available optionally, at your own cost.
• A scoring engine dedicated to let you know if the releases your indexers find are to be trusted or not, with a custom rule creator.
• Game details that becomes a page : more space for the information already there and to come.
• A lot of user requests, like collections, RomM native integration, docker image size build-down...

Added

• Collections: group games into manual collections or smart collections whose games are computed from rules (status, platform, genre, rating, release year, title), from the new Collections page under Library (Add custom game collections (manual and smart) #1199).
• Activity, History and Blocklist: the Activity section gains History, a searchable log of what happened to each download (grabbed, completed, imported, failed, needs review, removed, blocklisted), and Blocklist, a list of every release you blocked (previously in settings) (Add System Tasks, Activity pages and leftover-archive detection (1.5.1) #1195).
• System Tasks: Similar to what exists in Sonarr/Radarr, this new page under Activity lists the scheduled background jobs (game updates, download status, auto search, xREL, Steam and RomM sync, RSS feeds, history cleanup...) with their last and next run, and a Run now button for each (Add System Tasks, Activity pages and leftover-archive detection (1.5.1) #1195).
• Leftover archive warning: after an import, Questarr raises a warning notification when a finished download still holds archives that are still unpacked, with a hint to turn on Auto-unpack or extract them by hand (Add System Tasks, Activity pages and leftover-archive detection (1.5.1) #1195).
• Naming templates: the import rename pattern now accepts the tokens {Title}, {TitleThe}, {Year}, {Platform}, {Version}, {Group}, {Source}, {IgdbId}, {SteamAppId} and {Region} (Add naming templates with live preview for imported games #1197). See Library import.
• RomM integration: If enabled, it places imports in RomM's platform folders (snes, ps2, win...). You can ask RomM to rescan after an import, and mark wishlist games that RomM already has as owned, from Settings → Import (Add RomM integration: platform folders, API sync and rescan #1202). See Library import.
• Game videos: IGDB trailers and gameplay clips are shown in a carousel on the Media tab of the game details page. They play in a privacy-enhanced YouTube embed that loads only on click (Add IGDB videos to the game Media tab #1194).
• Release scoring: every search result now gets a score built from a title match, indexer category, platform and quality rules, a per-user release profile (minimum score, preferred protocol, required and ignored terms, minimum seeders, maximum size) and your own custom formats (conditions on the title, group, uploader, category, protocol or indexer, each adding or removing points, or rejecting the release outright).
  • The manual search shows the score, its breakdown and why a release was rejected
  • The auto-search only considers accepted releases, keeps the best-scored copy of a duplicate and orders the rest by score, then preferred protocol, then your sort order.
  • Releases the xREL PreDB lists as nuked are rejected, and the search shows an xREL badge.
  • Configure it under Settings → Discovery & Downloads → Release Scoring,
  • Preferred Release Groups card: existing preferred groups become a "Preferred release group" format worth +50 (Add release scoring: profile, custom formats, search integration, settings UI, xREL verification #1196).
  • In the manual download dialog, rejected releases are hidden by default with a badge showing how many: untick Hide rejected releases to see them, or set the default under Auto-download rules (Hide rejected releases in the manual download dialog #1231).
• Release trust badge: each search result also shows one verdict, Trusted, Unverified or Risky, with the reasons behind it. The verdict comes from the rejection reasons and facts, not from the score, so changing a rule weight cannot turn a nuked release into a trusted one (Add release trust badge (trusted / unverified / risky) combining scoring and xREL signals #1250). Trust levels:
  • Risky means a hard signal: nuked on xREL, an executable or script payload, a video, music or book, or a blacklisted release.
  • Trusted needs an accepted release with a clear title match and evidence that is hard to fake: listed on xREL with a size within 25 % of yours, or a preferred release group.
  • A name alone on xREL, or an xREL lookup that could not run, stays Unverified.
• Recommended custom formats: an Install recommended formats button adds a starting set that pushes down crack-only, demo and pre-installed releases, rejects trainers, keygens and activators outright, and favors releases that include updates and DLC and a few trusted repackers. Formats you already have are not duplicated (Add recommended default custom formats for release scoring #1224).
• Scoped API keys: API keys now have an access level (all, library write, read, game requests or admin) and an optional expiry of 1 to 365 days, chosen in Settings → Integrations → API Keys. The admin access lets deployment tooling configure Questarr (download clients, indexers, notifications, settings, import paths) from a script without an interactive login; treat such a key like an administrator login (Add an admin API key scope for configuration endpoints #1289).
• SeerrNG/Gameyfin Integration: In API keys, the new Game requests (SeerrNG) access lets SeerrNG request PC games from Questarr through a provider API that follows the QuestarrNG contract. Integration routes are limited to 300 requests per minute per key (Add scoped API keys, the SeerrNG provider API and a Gameyfin guide #1198). See SeerrNG, Gameyfin and API.
• Release classification:
  • Smart release filtering through machine learning, built in and free. Questarr recognizes patches, DLC, full games and non-game files (software, movies, soundtracks) right on your server, before anything is downloaded. No account, no API key, nothing leaves your network.
  • Unsure cases can optionally be double-checked by a cloud model, and anything classified as a patch, DLC or non-game file is held for your review instead of being downloaded blindly (you can also hold releases the classifier cannot decide on).
  • In detail, Questarr works out whether a release is the full game, a patch, DLC, an expansion, or something to avoid such as a crack only, demo or soundtrack. A release classified as a patch, DLC, crack only, demo or soundtrack is held for your review instead of being downloaded unattended.
  • It applies to automatic downloads and to the manual search results alike, so a release gets one type everywhere.
  • Questarr tries fast built-in rules first, then a small local model that ships with Questarr, including the Docker image, and runs offline (trained on 964 labeled releases, Retrain the bundled release classifier on 964 labeled releases #1291), and only asks the optional TypeSafe cloud provider when those cannot decide.
  • Pick the mode (hybrid by default, local to never leave your server, cloud for the previous cloud-only check), the confidence threshold and whether unclassified releases are held under Settings → Discovery & Downloads → Release classification, with no restart needed (Add the hybrid release classification pipeline with a local tf-idf model #1258, Add Settings for release classification and active learning #1263, Type search results through the release classification pipeline #1265, Cache TypeSafe release analyses so a repeated name is asked once #1266, Ship the trained release classifier model with the application #1267).
• Review the classification: Releases the classifier was unsure about can be kept for you to label under Settings → Discovery & Downloads → Release classification review, which flags a disagreement between the cloud and local models and notifies you each time 25 more releases wait for review (Add optional active-learning workflow for release classification #1261, Remember sightings before the candidate cap check #1262, Flag releases where the cloud and local models disagree for review #1270). You can also share your verified labels with the maintainer to help improve the public model: tick Share my verified labels automatically (off by default), and only the release name, game title, label and model version are sent, never anything about your library, with See what will be sent showing the exact rows (Add opt-in sharing of verified classification labels #1271). See Release classification (Add release classification section to the README #1264).
• Update available badge and filter: library games with newer update releases on your indexers show an Update available badge on their card and on the game page, and a new Update Available filter in the Library lists only those games. The plain search-results badge shows only when no update release is waiting (Add update-available badge and filter to library games #1240).
• Backlog roulette game length: choose a short adventure (up to 5 hours), a weekend quest (up to 15 hours) or a longer journey (up to 40 hours) from the IGDB completion estimate; games without a known estimate stay out of length-filtered draws. See Backlog roulette (Add game-length filters to backlog roulette #1272).
• Ignored folders in Library Import: Ignore on a Needs Review folder removes it for good, so later scans skip it before listing its files, for example a Proton build next to your games. An Ignored Folders list under Needs Review restores a folder, which queues a rescan of its root folder, see Library Import (Add persistent Ignore for folders in Library Import Needs Review #1239).
• Notification links: set APP_URL and Apprise alerts include a link to the page they are about, such as the game, the Downloads page or the right settings tab. See Notifications.

Changed

• Docker image: development dependencies are pruned in their own build stage and the final layers are no longer recursively re-owned, so the image ships without them (Slim Docker image by pruning dev deps in a build stage #1260). As a result, the image is significantly smaller.
• Game details page: a game now opens on its own page instead of a pop-up. You can bookmark or share its address, open it in a new tab from the card title or with a middle-click on a card.
• RSS feed errors: the error detail on a failing feed is now an accessible tooltip instead of the browser's native one (🎨 Palette: Replace native title tooltip with accessible UI tooltip for RSS errors #1230).
• Weekly pre-releases: a weekly workflow publishes a vX.Y.Z-dev.YYYYMMDD pre-release and the Docker tags weekly and dev, never latest (Add weekly development pre-release workflow #1192). Their notes end with a list of contributors, bots excluded (Add contributors to the weekly pre-release notes #1222), counted by commit (Count weekly release contributors by commit #1269). See Operations.

Fixed

• Download search while typing: the manual download dialog waits a little longer after you stop typing before searching, and a search that a newer one replaces is cancelled instead of piling up requests on your indexers (Cancel superseded release searches and lengthen download dialog search debounce #1293).
• Library import: platform names, folders and Game Gear are now handled correctly (Fix import filtering for stored platform names #1212).
• Auto-search paging: for a wanted game with many update releases, auto-search keeps paging through indexer results until a main release would survive final selection, instead of stopping on a first page made only of updates (Page auto-search past update releases to a wanted game's main release #1214).
• Usenet downloads: a download marked failed is restored and imported once NZBGet or SABnzbd no longer reports a failure, for example after you fix a wrong archive password and post-process the item again. Questarr checks failed downloads from the last 14 days every 10 minutes. NZBGet failures now say why (wrong password, unpack, par2 repair, missing articles, malformed NZB, disk space) instead of a bare error, including the SCAN and SPACE statuses (Fix NZBGet archive password refused over HTTP and failed-download recovery #1235).
• Archive password over HTTP: an NZBGet downloader with Allow insecure LAN turned on can send an archive password over plain HTTP again; without that option, the error now suggests it. A request carrying a password or credentials over plain HTTP is no longer sent to another host if the server redirects it, apart from a same-host upgrade to HTTPS (Fix NZBGet archive password refused over HTTP and failed-download recovery #1235).
• Home Assistant add-on: the add-on starts the server with node directly instead of through npm (Fix Home Assistant startup after npm removal #1208).
• Recently Released sort: the Library sort lists games already out first, newest first, then unreleased games soonest first, and games without a date last, instead of putting future releases at the top (Fix Recently Released sort listing unreleased games first #1243).
• Nintendo Switch dumps: the Library scan reads the title id in file and folder names (for example Hades [0100535012974000][v0].nsp), matches flat files as well as folders, attaches an update or DLC to its base game, strips tags such as [UPD], [NSZ] and region codes from the title, and retries IGDB without its platform filter when the filtered search is weak (Fix library scan matching of Nintendo Switch dumps #1241).
• Library rescans: folders already linked to a game are skipped instead of reappearing in Needs Review, and new files in them are still attached (Skip already linked folders in library rescans #1234).
• Manual import Auto-Unpack: the Unpack Archive switch in the manual import dialog follows your saved Auto-unpack default and picks up a changed default, instead of always starting off; a password-protected retry still turns it on (Fix manual import Auto-Unpack defaults #1278).
• IGDB platform and genre lists: an empty list from IGDB (unconfigured or unreachable) is no longer cached, by the server or by the browser, so the filters recover once IGDB answers again, and platforms are filtered on the current platform_type field instead of the deprecated one (Fix stale empty IGDB platform list and deprecated platform filter #1223).
• Download-search platform filter: selecting several consoles, for example Wii and PS3, no longer hides the releases of all but one of them; every platform a release name can express is now understood by the filter (Fix download-search platform filter hiding consoles in a mixed selection #1281).
• VirusTotal test button: the test now uses the complete EICAR file hash, so a valid API key is confirmed instead of failing on a malformed hash (Fix the EICAR hash used by the VirusTotal test button #1279).
• Legacy session token migration: a pre-1.5.0 token left in localStorage is now carried over as an in-memory bearer token for the current tab and removed from localStorage, in a post-commit effect instead of during React render. The app waits for it before calling /api/auth/me, which also makes it safe under StrictMode. It is not stored as a cookie, so the next reload asks you to sign in again (Move legacy token migration out of AuthProvider render #1193).

Dependencies

• Routine updates to production and dev dependencies, GitHub Actions, and framer-motion 14, and follow-redirects pinned to 1.16.2 and body-parser to 2.4.0, with multer 2.5.0, for high advisories (Bump the dev-dependencies group with 15 updates #1188, Bump the all-actions group with 5 updates #1189, Bump the production group with 40 updates #1190, Bump framer-motion from 13.4.4 to 14.0.0 #1191, Bump apprise from 2.0.0 to 2.0.1 in /requirements in the python-tooling group across 1 directory #1205, [Snyk] Security upgrade zod from 4.6.5 to 4.6.6 #1206, Bump the all-actions group with 7 updates #1218, Bump the production group with 34 updates #1219, Bump express and @types/express #1220, Pin follow-redirects to 1.16.1 for two high advisories #1228, Bump the pip group across 2 directories with 1 update #1229, Fix high advisories in body-parser and multer #1236, Bump the dev-dependencies group with 9 updates #1244, Bump the production group with 32 updates #1245, Bump @hookform/resolvers from 5.9.1 to 6.0.0 #1246, Bump the all-actions group with 4 updates #1247, Bump the npm_and_yarn group across 1 directory with 2 updates #1249, Bump semgrep from 1.180.0 to 1.181.0 in /.github/requirements in the python-tooling group across 1 directory #1252, Bump node-forge from 1.4.0 to 1.4.1 in the npm_and_yarn group across 1 directory #1259, Add Apprise context-link help and link in the test notification #1288, Bump qs from 6.16.0 to 6.17.1 in the npm_and_yarn group across 1 directory #1290).

Contributors

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release:

• @UnderwaterOverground
• @denial3x
• @JEFF7712

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